Pennsylvania, Lehigh County
Where Allentown's records are kept. Allentown has its own city government, police department and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Allentown's own offices, along with State of Pennsylvania offices; the Lehigh County offices are on our Lehigh County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The City of Allentown site, with City Hall at 435 Hamilton Street, listing city departments, permits and licenses, the 311 citizen problem reporter, Right to Know requests, city laws and community events.
Open official site City of AllentownPolice & jail
The Allentown Police Department at the Public Safety Building, 425 Hamilton St., open around the clock, with an incident dashboard map, police reports, recruitment, the PAL youth program and a citizen police academy.
Open official site Allentown Police DepartmentPolice & jail
Allentown Police Records, on the College Street side of the Public Safety Building, provides incident and accident report copies in person or by mail to people named in the report, with photo ID required.
Open official site Allentown Police RecordsCity records
Allentown Right to Know requests reach the city RTK Officer by email, fax, mail to 435 W. Hamilton Street or the City Hall lobby drop box; responses generally come within five business days.
Open official site City of Allentown Right to Know RequestsCity records
The Bureau of Building Standards and Safety, on the 3rd and 4th floors of City Hall at 435 Hamilton St, handles trade licensing, building permits and inspections, rental licensing, presale inspections and online applications.
Open official site Allentown Bureau of Building Standards and SafetyPolice & jail
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & jail
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections search for people in state prisons or under department supervision, by name, inmate or parole number, gender, committing county or current location.
Open official site Pennsylvania DOC Inmate LocatorVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
Archive run by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission that keeps the permanent public records of the Commonwealth, chiefly state government records, plus papers of private citizens and groups tied to Pennsylvania history.
Open official site Pennsylvania State ArchivesCounty court
Philadelphia and Reading offices handle bankruptcy cases for eastern Pennsylvania; judges calendars, opinions, forms and local rules are posted, with links to the Chapter 13 trustee case status system and PACER.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of PennsylvaniaCounty court
Public Pennsylvania court docket sheets for appellate, common pleas and magisterial district courts, court calendars and PAePay. Secure services such as statewide warrants need access approved by a county clerk of court.
Open official site Pennsylvania Judiciary Web PortalEverything else, organized
16 more Allentown sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Allentown, a place of 125,845 people, is the seat of Lehigh County. Court and property records sit with Lehigh County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Pennsylvania. Allentown's own offices are in the cards above, and our Lehigh County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 17 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 17 past producers, now closed; the old survey maps add 4 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Iron.
A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area. DEP has an address lookup for mine subsidence risk at gis.dep.pa.gov/msiRisk where you enter a street address: if the site falls in a gray Underground Mining Area it is over or near a known mined area. The PHUMMIS inventory of historic underground mine maps sits at www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/Phummis and is linked from the DEP Act 54 maps page.
Pennsylvania abandoned mine maps ranks every county and town in the state by the workings recorded inside it, names the office that holds the mine maps, and says what to do if the ground moves.
Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 251 investigations with a Allentown address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,257,436 in back wages agreed for 2,239 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Products Performance Manufacturing, Inc. | 1 | $184,285 | 38 |
| The United Solutions Group Inc. | 3 | $156,948 | 16 |
| Independent Kareblazers, LLC | 1 | $108,970 | 33 |
| Everticals, Inc. | 2 | $97,734 | 3 |
| REMCO Inc. | 2 | $88,645 | 1 |
| H.C. Painting Co., Inc. | 1 | $77,524 | 9 |
| CareGivers America, LLC | 5 | $77,353 | 116 |
| County of Lehigh | 5 | $51,425 | 335 |
| Dunkin | 2 | $43,636 | 4 |
| M D Enterprises LLC | 1 | $34,187 | 63 |
| KWLT, LLC | 1 | $30,764 | 40 |
| Godshalls Lawn Maintnance INC | 1 | $29,459 | 35 |
| Hartford Fire Insurance Company | 1 | $25,448 | 613 |
| Bizati Enterprises Ltd. | 3 | $23,922 | 104 |
| Tyco Integrated Security, LLC | 3 | $21,498 | 9 |
| Caralens, Inc. | 3 | $21,367 | 60 |
| Triple J Automotive | 1 | $21,247 | 15 |
| F.W. Webb, Inc. | 1 | $20,165 | 9 |
| 3712 Shree LLC | 1 | $20,067 | 37 |
| Lynar Corporation | 1 | $19,687 | 21 |
| T & W Vending, Inc. | 2 | $18,999 | 37 |
| Maranatha Broadcasting Inc. | 1 | $18,033 | 9 |
| Restaurant Development LLC | 1 | $15,935 | 45 |
| The Newton Engineering Group, PC | 1 | $15,309 | 20 |
| Lehigh Valley Hardwood Flooring Inc. | 1 | $15,211 | 18 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 202 whose address on the record is in Allentown; 67 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 177 more with smaller records are on the Pennsylvania wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Pennsylvania is run by the Pennsylvania Department of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Allentown.
Deeds for property in Allentown are recorded by the Lehigh County Recorder of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Lehigh County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Pennsylvania come from the state vital records office, Pennsylvania Division of Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.